Tinkering with the OU TM351 VM, looking at putting together an Amazon AWS AMI version, I started to wonder about how I could add a simple authentication layer to mediate public web access so students don’t fire up an image on their dollar and then find other folk using it.

So… h/t to Adam McGreggor for pointing me to nginx. Using this and a smattering of other cribs, I soon got to this (simple_auth.sh):